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Indiana farmer, 1876, v. 11, no. 38 (Sept. 23)

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Vol. XL
HTOIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 23,1876.
No. 38.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
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PERSONALS.
Persons In any part of the state seeking the address or attention of parties In other portions of the
Etate oi country shot-Id make inquiry in this department
'_ Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Farmer for the recovery of stock.
Tell yom* neighbor of it when yon hear of the loss
of his Btock.
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less
than 25 cents.
FOR BAL£.
FOR SALE—Choice Partridge Cochins suitable
for exhibition at any connty fair, at 85, per
pair. Geo. Vestal, Cambridge City, Ind. 37-2w
MONEY LOANS.
TO LOAN—$500,000—In sums of 81,000 and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county
in the State. Time, three' o five years. Interest ten
per cent., payable semi annually at the end of every
six months. Commission five per cent. Money
furnished in five days after examination of property, and abstract and appraisement is made. In
writing give number of acres cleared and in cultivation, kind of house and barn and value. Address W. A. Bradshaw, State Pavings Bank, No. 56 N.
Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. 84-tf
WANTED.
"TT"**-ANTED—A reader of the Farmer wishes to
TV obtain copies of "The Hog," by H. W. Ellsworth and Charles Loring, by Dr. T. A. Bland. Any
cne having these books for sale will please send address and price to this office.
38-tf INDIANA FARMER.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
It
CLASSES in SHORT-HAND commence the first
of each week at the Indianapolis Business College, Bates Block, opposite P. O. Lessons given by
mail. For terms, etc., call at College, or address,
with stamp, C. E. Joslin, Indianapolis Business College. '■ 38-2w
MISCELLANEOUS.
FOR TRADE—I wish to exchange a thoroughbred, Southdown Buck, ont ot S. Meredith A
Son's imported stock for one of the same kind but
of different strain. S. K FLETCHER. 36-tf
STOCK NOTES.
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A pair of thoroughbred Holstein cattle •will be on exhibition at the State Fair.
These are the first of this breed brought
into Indiana, by Tilghman H. Anderson.
A lot of fine Cotswold lambs were recently sold by a Kentucky breeder for
ten dollars per head.
Mr. Murray, of Westover Farm, on
the James River, Va., has just imported a
two year old Devon bull, a Devon heifer
of the same age, two Shropshire rams and
ten ewes, from England.
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The splendid series of Short-horn sales
,for Kentucky, advertised in the Farmer,
will probably be the last of the autumn
- sales.
Mr. Jas. H. Parker, a swine breeder of
Spencer county this State, writes us that
he is losing nearly all of his valuable
hogs with the cholera. He has lost many
hundreds of dollars worth of fine stock in
this way. He writes that the disease is
so general and fatal, that there will hardly be enough pork made in that county to
supply the home demand. We regret to
hear of this .disaster among our good
friends of Spencer. The Farmer has
published everything that promised relief on thia subject, but what gives relief
in one case has no effect in another, and
bo there is no effectual and general remedy found yet for hog cholera. We believe that if the rules laid down by Prof.
Law, as published in the Farmer of August 26th, were carefully observed, that
there would be little orrib cholera among
the swine.
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Sale of Sheep.—We observe in the papers the following report of a sale of sheep,
the property ofF. GanoHill, Centerville,
Ky.,30:
106 CotWold ewes :.........i:;ii; *tt,M3 5o
21 •• " lambs, 259 00
35 " bucks, 735 00
10 " "Stick iambs,. 170 00
3 Leicester ewes 45 00
11 Shropshite-Down ewes,. 250 00
4 " bucks, „... 78 00
16 Southdown ewes 268 50
9 " buck lambs, 13143
224 head, average 17 00
The principal purchasers were Mr.
Mark 8. Cockrill, for the Tennessee Importing Company, and Mr. J. L. Devore
of Ohio. Highest priced imported Cotswold buck went to J. L. Devore, Ohio, for
$51. Highest Cotswold ewe sold to B. H.
Prewitt, Pine Grove, Ky., $41. Imported
"Shropshire buck sold to W. A. Gaines,
iCentreville, Ky., $46. and re-sold to General Cheatham, Nashville, Tenn., for $50.
Cotswolds in Kehtocky.—At the public sale ■ of Cotswolds by Messrs. War-
nock & Megibben, of Harrison county,
and J. W. Allison, of Bourbon, at the
farm of Mr. Megibben, near Cynthiana,
Ky., August 31st, the Kentucky Live
Stock Record says there was a good attendance, notwithstanding rain, and the
following prices were paid:
. 164 ewes, average per head $18 55
' 27 ewe lambs, 1140
41 bucks 36 25
32 buck lambs „ 1175
Highest priced bucks purchased by
Mr. Gordon of Indiana for $200; D. S.
Coleman & Son, Fayette county, buck,
$200; 2d, Jas. Williams, Clark county,
$185, and 3d, John Skillman, Bourbon
county, $145. The highest priced ewe
was sold to Buckner Woodford of Bourbon, for $60. .
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Ethan Allen, the celebrated trotting
stallion, died a few days ago in Kansas,
at the advanced age of twenty-seven
years.
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The owner of a large herd of Shorthorns in the county of Perth, Englandi
states that he has lately lost £50,000 by
the foot-and-mouth disease.
The firm of Gen. S. Meredith & Son, of
Cambridge City., has lately made a ship
ment of horses to England. This firm of
breeders of superior stock has a worldwide reputation, and this is not the first
time English stock breeders have sought
their herds for superior animals, of one
kind or an other.
SHEEP IN EUROPE.
The report on sheep and wool at the Vienna International Exhibition has just
been given to the public, from which we
quota the following in regard to^tsheeD
and wool: ■•■-;■*""-.■
-- isnwwani*.—The" Southdowns take the
lead in point of numbers, with 40 animals; 20 from the flock of Lord Sondes,
Elmham Hall,' Norfolk; and as many
from the Merton flock of Lord Walsing-
ham. The former represented a flock of
1,200 pnre bred Sussex Downs, founded
in 1823, and distinguished for symmetry
and thriftine3S. They were sold to go to
Hungary, Galicia, North Germany and
Russia. The latter, from a flock of worldwide renown, were sold to the Archduke
Albrecht for his estates in Austria; to
Count Fries, Czernahora, Moravia; Baron
Magnus, Dresha, Saxony, and to breeders in Russia. The Elmham Hall rams
yield fleeces of 8 to 10 pounds, and those
of Merton Farm are quite as heavy.
The Cotswolds numbered twenty-six in
three entries. Those from the Agricultural College Farm, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, twelve in number, representing
a flock of 200 ewes and 60 rams and 180
fattening sheep, illustrated well the especial aims of breeding at the college
farm, viz., a heavy fleece, depth of fleece,
and great hardiness. The fleeces weigh
from 13 to 20 pounds. The rams are in
great request for cross-breeding with
Southdowns, Hampshires, and mountain
sheep, to give length to the fiber and
weight to the fleece. There were also
eight from Mr. T. Beale Brown, Salperton
Park, Gloucestershire; and six from Thos.
Fulcher, Elmhall, Norfolk.
Germany.—The Merinos of Germany
have been greatly modified in later years
by crossing, so that it might be impossible to find a flock with the precise characteristics of twenty years ago, though
bearing the same name. ' The Electoral,
Negretti, and Rambouillet are mingled
according to the whim or judgment of
the breeder,, the better to suit his views
of the demands of the market for wool or
meat, and the result is the loss ofthe distinctive character of the originals. The
spindle legs have been shortened, the
flat ribs rounded, the bald head covered,
and the very fine super-Electoral fleece
has been displaced by longer,' coarser,
and more abundant wool, which brings
more money at a slightly reduced price
per pound.
Cement for Cracked Hoofs.
Mr. Defay has discovered a preparation, by means of which sand-cracks or
fractures in hoof or horn may be durably cemented up. Even pieces of iron
can be securely joined together by ita
means. The only precaution necessary
for its successful application is the careful removal of all grease by spirits of sal-
ammoniac, sulphide of carbon, or ether.
M. Defay makes no secret of ita composition, which is as follows: Take one
part of coarsely powdered gum-ammoni-
acum and two parts of gutta-percha, in
pieces the size of a hazel nut. Put them
m a tin-lined vessel over a slow fire, and
stir constantly until thoroughly mixed.
Before the thick resinous mass gets cold,
mold it into sticks like sealing wax. The
cement will keep for years, and, when required for use, it is only necessary to cut
off a sufficient quantity and re-melt it immediately before application.— English
Live Stock Journal.
Holsteins at Illinois State Pair.
Among the attractions at the Illinois
Sta'fe Fair last week, were the Holsteins.]
represented by the herd of Mr. Dexter
Severv, of Leland, 111. First prizes were
awarded on cows as follow s: Zuyder Zee
9th dam imp. Zuyder Zee. Rosalie, dam
imp. Vrouw. Hester, dam imp. Hendrika.
First prize on bull" to Merrimac, on First
Prince of Victor, and on duke of Leland.
The Holsteins are attracting increased
attention on account partly of their large
milking capacity as a breed, combined
with large size.—Farm Journal.
Feeding Meat for Hog Cholera.
Trifles light as air are sometimes of
weight and moment, when they help to
illustrate interesting and important subjects. As an example, I repeat the con
versation had with a couple of gentlemen
I met on the fair grounds last week. First
with Mr. Wiley Davis of Mahomet,
Champaign county, a well-informed,
wealthy and successful cattle feeder, owning a large farm, and living on the east
fork ofthe Sangamon. After the_ compliments of usage due to the magnificent
Short-horn show before us, I enquired:
"You and your neighbors on the Sangamon suffered much from the hog cholera last year; how is it this season?"
D. " JVe have very little of it. At one
time I thought my hogs were on the
point of being attacked, when fortunately
the train killed a couple of steers for me,
on which the hogs gorged themselves,!
and they have been healthy ever since.")
J. "Ah, indeed! Then you regard
fresh meat ai the best antidote or pre-]
ventive. How would you feed it; is_there}
not danger from gorging; would it no;
have been better to have cut the carcase:
up and doled them out, a pound or two
day to each?" '
D. "No. Gorging is just what the
want, or excess, or stirring up of so: _
kind; when a hog takes the cholera jt li
down, and if not stirred up,', dies in "
own atmosphere. Forcing them to mo|
is one of thebest. things for *them, n<
to feeding flesh and , providing them?
tini3v-«»^^vsr-«>e»^rnar»wviy ftncrilrjie.'.'^V
' J. Better and better! x>**ry?t<sti-!s
salt, and lime. How about offal-feu
swine? Do they have the cholera? I
ask you besause I understand you have
had experience as a butcher."
D. "Yes. I slaughtered more or less
from the time I was 10 until I was 28. I
never saw hog cholera in a slaughter
yard, and though the popular prejudice
is quite to the contrary, the best clean
pork I ever ate,—that of which, after
cooking thoroughly, the meat remained,
was fed solely and exclusively with butcher's offal."
J. "If the cholera were to show itself
on your return home, among your swine,
what is the first thing you would do?"
D. "Hunt up the poorest and cheapest old cow or steer among my cattle,
add kill and throw to them.
J. "How about contagion?"
D. "I am not fully persuaded one way
or the other, but I do know by my own,
and the experience of others, that there
is nothing better for a herd of swine, attacked with cholera, than hauling the
dead ones together, piling on brush and
wood, half cooking and half consuming
them, and then leave the sick and well
to feast on their half roasted dead relatives and friends. But what is the use of
talking about preventing contagion by
separating the sick from the well, when
buzzards swarm as they always do, where
there is much cholera and leave the foul
traces of their flight and presence everywhere? You remember the reported fall
of flesh in Kentucky some months ago,
the work of buzzards, as a matter of
course."
Taking leave of Mr. Davis, I soon after
met Mr. John Allen Urbana—"Judge"
Allen as he is called by his neighbors
—a farmer of Quaker parentage and a
well-to-do and intelligent man. Judge
Allen had previously given 8 hours of
honest work on a committee with which
I had had official relation, and so after
thanking him for the service and greeting
to the fairness and justice ofthe awards,
I inquired as to the condition of hia swine
this summer. Had he seen the cholera,
or symptoms of it, I asked. He had, but
he had arrested it, aa he had previously
done, by feeding meat. "In fact," said
he, so far as my experience goes there is no
other remedy worth anything."
''What kind of meat, Judge?" I enquired.
"Why cracklins are best if you can get
them, but refuse meat from the smoke
house, surplus fat or lean, shanks, rinds,
&c; any kind of meat will answer the
purpose." "Your report gratifies me exceedingly, Judge. I shall soon see you
again.—III. Correspondent Country Gentleman.
$1 Jer head equivalent to hay at $10 per
torj He would like to see our dairymen
feeing more corn-meal and more oata in
wilier and less hay. Then cows would
notcome out in the spring as lean as Pha-
roia's lean kine, and they would start off
foiiheir summer duties with good heart
an|udder, and more than pay back the
exta cost, if there is any, of the winter
foder.—N. Y. Times.
BUBAL NOTES.
BY A. FURNAS.
jJierican Beef in London.—The
Anerican feeders probably never could
ha*e invaded the English meat market
at .'more opportune period. The sham-
bis' are not only sparsely covered, but
thtquality of the meat exhibited is, gen-
er.ly speaking, unpopular and ill adapted o cope with the grass-fed meat that
th« are prepared to offer to the meat
eaiog population of Great Britain.—Lon-
doiAg'l Gazette.
. GRASSHOPPERS IN KANSAS.
Fain Devastated in an Hour—An Original Account ofthe Occurence.
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'He New York Times says:_ The follow-
ingoriginal and characteristic account of
thtKansas grasshopper plague is taken
frca a private letter to a gentleman in
th; city:
<, "Saline County, Ks., Sept. 8,1876,
My Dear Father—No man can suc-
ce-fully fight against nature. The con-
te> }s unequal—nature caring no more
foiaman than for a grasshopper. Ah I
th< jhopper.' To-day I lost sixty acres of
wbjtt, eaten into the ground in legs than
tir. I thought I had seen locusts
ears ago, but I was mistaken.
out 10 o'clock this morning, I no-
ticcfl a heavy smoke r.'sing in the west.
I Ead to myself, ' that is strange-looking
smoke. What causes it ?' I sat on my
whe^t-drill and watched it. Rapidly it
ai-ojej*—smoke rising to the south, to the
now, to the northeast. In a few minutes
tKefcOlumn of smoke extended from the
s&ith xround by the west to the north-
eaift—id the extreme limit of vision.
I un-
A Good Crop.
To The Indiana Farmer:
This part of Indiana can boast of one
heavy crop without precedent for the
last quarter of a century, and that is
malaria. Having had a "tech," and just
when I didn't want it, I feel competent
to sit in judgment in the case.
As I was going to start to Indianapolis
to receive the Centennial Fruit so liberally contributed by our horticultural
friends, I had to take my bed with bil-
lious fever, being a relapse from a previous
attack. I am thus "personal" for the
purpose of explaining my seeming neglect of correspondence at that time. After
finding my inability to attend to the
centennial fruit, I sent my papers to
Charles Lowder with a request that he
fill my place. This he did, and after
working one "day, went home with the
fever. He in turn sent for J. B. Milhous, but he or his family were sick, so
the work of packing fell upon Sylveste r
Johnson, assisted by Jesse White^ind
Matthew Lowder. S. J. reported that he
would go with the fruit and see that it
was properly displayed, and I feel gratified that one of the committee was found
well enough to go with it. Verily this
would seem to be the pursuit of glory,
or knowledge, under difficulties.
Since writing the foregoing, friend
Johnson wrote me briefly, stating that
our fruit all arrived safely at the centennial grounds-, and that by evening of the
second day of the exhibition, he had it
all arranged, and that for quality it compared favorably with other states, but
waa far behind some of them in number
of varieties. To see this national exhibition of fruit would have been worth
more to me than all the other part of j
the centennial show, the occasion being'
slowly ssjnk,l auspicious, for making notes and corroc-
. > .— o - ■* ; - r-« my wheat jtisaii,'bt)i\i in'desirable varietieiVas wei]
sacks u the wtgon, hitched to it, drove
Winter Feeding.
Corn is better adapted for fattening animals than for making them grow. To
young animals, even to pigs, it should be
fed in moderation. Fat is not what we want
in a young animal, but bones and muscles instead, and these are best produced
by grass, roots, and oats. It is often, however, economy to feed a little corn-meal
with these. Prof.Arnold has made some
experiments in feeding corn compared
with hay, and he estimates the former at
to the g-anary, unloaded, drove to the
house, got my tu^ and went prairie-
chicken shooting. My wife looked at
me in mild surpris Quitting work on
a beautiful day to gOHooting was a queer
thing, she thought, ±&& not i,ave the
heart to tell her that i jggg than four
hours her nice garden **,„-<} be cleaned
out, and that all our wheatT0Uld begone.
Soon the low hum, as of a t^tant threshing machine, filled the air—*ie advance
of the locusts. Louder, ever -.uder the
hum, till in a rear the counties billions
of devourers were .on us, all art.nd us.
The air was stiff with them. I coui \0q_[
at the sun without blinking. The; 8et.
tied constantly. The earth was cov*^
with them, yet not one in a thousa^j
stopped. To the east they went in a vat _
cloud. A west wind, a gale, blew them.'
For six hours they flew, a solid cloud;
and to-night there is not a wheat plant
left in any of the counties about here. I
sat on a hill and watched them, and
smiled aa I saw some hundreds tackle a
sunflower, and laughed as I saw that sunflower vanished. How thick they were I
How harmless they looked; but, by Jove,
how they ate! Ah! what appetites they
have. It would make a dyspeptic turn
green with envy to see the way they fasten to anything and everything edible.
The characteristic of a grasshopper's appetite is, that all he eats runs to appetite.
Sixty acres of my wheat was up. Now it
is down— the gullets of the locusta. I suppose they will take the residue as it cornea
through the ground. Well, I shall have
to re-seed, that is all. But the loss of seed
and labor is pretty sore on me this year,
I have joy in saying that I have eighty
acres of com that will try their teeth
somewhat. It is aa hard aa corn can be.
I walked down this afternoon to see how
they were making out with it. They had
the stalks all stripped of leaves, and were
sawing at the corn. But I could see it
was no go. The teeth alipped over the
bright yellow surface. I have gone to
haying again, and will hay until the locusts leave. I still keep three plows run-
ning, and will re-seed as soon as possible.
Our garden is perfectly cleared; beans,
cabbages, tomatoes, melons, everything
utterly gone. The vines to the potatoes
are gone, and I am expecting a boss hopper nere at any minute to request the
loan of a spade to dig up my potatoes
with. I shall refuse hia request with
scorn."
as nomenclature
I might be allowed to remark here
that out of some fifty persons that -were
booked for the horticultural excursion,
only nineteen were able to go, sickness
being the principal cause of the others
not going. In our popular form of government it is said "the majority is always right," but in thia particular in-
8tance I would have preferred being
recorded with the minority, and when
the train started with those that did go, I
felt somewhat like the Irishman that
missed connection, "that there was a
passenger aboard that was left behind."
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
State Neva.
by the arrest of "William Fordner and John
Watson and their wives. A large quantity of
stolen goods was recovered at their houses.
A petition circulated for the pardon of Jas.
K. Hill, a "crooked-whisky" convict, who is
now in the penitentiary South, has received
the signature of Jndge Walter Greaham, before whom he was convicted. Hill was sent
for two and a half years on the charge of defrauding the Government as whisky-guagei.
The Clay County Trotting Association and
fair closed Saturday. It was a successful «x-
hibition. The attendance was not quite so
large as last year, but the fair was much better in other respects. The races are conceded
the best of any former year.
The residence of J. T. Prather, (a large two-
story structure,) near Wheatland, Knox county, was destroyed by fire on Monday night,
together with nearly all of its contents. The
fire originated from a defective flue in the
kitchen. Loss about $3,000; insured for
$2,000.
Cannelton Enquirer: A little child of Mr.
James Conner, aged about three years, died,
after a short illness, on Friday last. On Sunday, another being very Bick, Mr. Conner
went for a physician, and while he was gone,
his eldest boy, about eight years of age, came
in from play and complained of not feeling
well, and died before his father came home.
The Lafayette Journal says: At the South-
street depot, Saturday, two travelers, awaiting
the Chicago train, were both attacked with
ague at the same time. They shook and
shook, and made fun of each other, and shook
again. When the train arrived they both got
aboard and took the same seat together, being
determined, as one of them said, of shaking
the conductor out of his fare.
General News.
The State Fair and Exposition opens on
(onday, the 25th.
-".nathan White's residence, near Liberty,
wasiestroyed by fire a few days since. Loss
$3,00*.
Mrs. Hedman, of Bloomington, who waa
shot by Lur son-in-law, a week ago, has since
died.
Lightningstrnck the barn of a Mr. Walker,
near Andersoi recently, and burned it down.
Loss $4,000; iraurance' $2,800.
One firm in this city has canned 10,000
bujhela of tomatoes this season.
•ere were forty-seven deaths in this city
last Week.
There were twenty-one interments from yellow fever at Savannah, Ga., on Saturday.
There seems to be no abatement of the terrible scourge.
New York and other eastern cities are extending aid to the suffering people of Savannah, Georgia.
John D. Lee, the leader in the Mountain
Meadow massacre of 1857, in Utah, where a
company of emigrants were butchered, is now
on trial for the same.
Boss Tweed was sent from Spain to Cuba on
the 21st, and from thence he will be forwarded
to New York.
Gen. Terry's command in the Indian country has broken up and the pursuit of the red
skins abandoned for the season.
Th» barn of Archibald Armstrong, near
BymVille, Harrison connty, was destroyed by
fire oil the morning of the 7th inst. It is supposed the fire originated from lightning. Loss
about $2,000.
Burellvrs attempted to rob the Renssalaer
bank .by\ digging under the foundation, the
other day, but were captured before completing the job. One of them -was a grocery man
of the place.
The ague is more generally prevalent now
than at any time since 1865.
The wife of Samuel Barrow, of Windfall,
was instantly killed by lightning, on Saturday
afternoon while in an upper room of her house
in '.hat village.
Tie Cass County Agricultural Association
lost about $1,400 on their fair last week. Sickness was the prime cause of their failure.
The twenty-second annual convention of
the Evangelical Lutheran Bynod of Northern
Indiana will meet in the city of Elkhart on
the 3rd of October next. There is expected
about seventy ministers and lay delegates. The
meeting will be continued for five days.
A stranger was put off from the O. and M.
train at Wateon, on Thursday morning of
last week. No one. appears to have known
him, his name, or where he came from and
he died Friday night at the residence of John
Dawson. . **.
A farmer named John Holtz, living near
Eugene, Vermillion connty, committed suicide by hanging himself in his bam on Monday last.
Mr. John Biley, of Graham township, Jefferson county, died on the 5th inst., in the
eighty-eighth year of his age. Mr. Riley was
a soldier in the war of 1812 under Gen. Hani
son, and participated in the siege of Fort
Miegs.
Chief of Police Ayres, of Evansville, has
just broken up a gang of robbers and bun-lars
It would appear from newspaper dispatches
that the political campaign in South Carolina
is bordering closely upon open war between
the two parties. Riots are frequent.
Bishop Edmond 8. Janes, of the M. E.
church in New York died on the 18th.
Several negroes and one white man were
killed in Aiken county, South Carolina, the
result of a riot
Gen. Crook overtook a force of Indians,
fought amjYkUled between 2C0 and 300 of them,
on the 9th intt., . , '-■.,■'-,■•■
iV hi?ryy^tzd 'toi^Pn^^ to ^titiideii- *■>
phia -Ua.,on Sunday last, which done considerable Qatoaee.to tlae m&Vu «xW*b*&*uS*tY -hoiva- -
ing and Machinery Hall. Considerable dam- "•■
age to American and English exhibits re- ''
suited.
A few days ago a flock of swans, a half mile
in length and estimated at 10,000, passed over
LaSalle, Illinois.
In the oolleges, academies, schools and other
educational institutions of Jacksonville, 111.,
there are 65 males and 83 females employed as
instructors—148 in all. Not less than three
thousand pupils are receiving instrnction in
the educational institutions in that city.
Last week and this witnessed larger numbers of visitors at the Centennial than at any
former time.
Rufus R. Graves, who died recently at Morristown, N. Y., left large bequests to numerous institutions of learning and christian associations.
The legislature of Maine stands, politically—'
House, 120 Republicans, 30 Democrats; Senate, 29 Republicans, 2 Democrats.
Contributions have been flowing into the
yellow fever afflicted city of Savannah. Great
destitution exists.
Mr. J. H. Potts, of Morgan county, carried
off over $600 in premiums at the Illinois State
Fair last week on his herd of shorthorns.
Robbers boarded tbe Utah Central Railroad
a *few nights ago near Salt Lake City, and secured $15,000.
The Architectural Iron Works of New York
City have failed. Liabilities $200,000 of which
$11,000 is due employes.
Miller & Son., calico printers of Glasgow,
Scotland, have failed. Liabilities $500,000.
The great boss thief—Tweed—will ere long
be returned to his native heath, New York.
Illinois has 929,940 horses, nearly 2,000,000
cattle, 1,000,000 hogs, 17,575 pianos, 21,608
melodeons, 155,728 sewing machines, and diamonds valued at $50,000.
The revised statutes, 1874, of Illinois, pro-
hibiU waging or betting money on valuables
of any nature, on the result of an election,
under penalty of $1,000 fine and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one
year.
The war which has been going on for some
time in Turkey has been marked by the most
atrocious crimes that could possibly be conceived by the human mind. In some provinces the women have been outraged by the
Turkish soldiery by the hundred. The details
of the various crimes committed by them are
disgusting, Bickening in the very extreme.
The Turks appear to have gone to the very
verge of the most hideous and revolting catalogue of crime, exhibiting all the characteristics of the most barbarous and brutal of
created man. One is appalled at the recital of
the devilish crimes they have committed. And
neither age, sex, nor condition seem to have
escaped. The authorities promise to redress
their wrongs by apprehending and punishing
the bloody bandits.
Special Notice.
To obviate the accumulation of dirt on top
of the hog's nose, which happens in some lo- ?
calities only, insert the Champios Dot-nti- "*|
Ring so that the cross-ban comes in frost of "j
the nose, and not on the top. It can be used
either way as the judgment of the operator.
dictates. Insert the Double Ring carefully, '
and it will give entibb satisfaction. Sx

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Vol. XL
HTOIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SEPTEMBER 23,1876.
No. 38.
EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT.
"V -
PERSONALS.
Persons In any part of the state seeking the address or attention of parties In other portions of the
Etate oi country shot-Id make inquiry in this department
'_ Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
No better medium could be selected than this department of the Farmer for the recovery of stock.
Tell yom* neighbor of it when yon hear of the loss
of his Btock.
Ten cents per line, and no advertisement for less
than 25 cents.
FOR BAL£.
FOR SALE—Choice Partridge Cochins suitable
for exhibition at any connty fair, at 85, per
pair. Geo. Vestal, Cambridge City, Ind. 37-2w
MONEY LOANS.
TO LOAN—$500,000—In sums of 81,000 and upward, on well-improved Farms in any county
in the State. Time, three' o five years. Interest ten
per cent., payable semi annually at the end of every
six months. Commission five per cent. Money
furnished in five days after examination of property, and abstract and appraisement is made. In
writing give number of acres cleared and in cultivation, kind of house and barn and value. Address W. A. Bradshaw, State Pavings Bank, No. 56 N.
Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis. 84-tf
WANTED.
"TT"**-ANTED—A reader of the Farmer wishes to
TV obtain copies of "The Hog," by H. W. Ellsworth and Charles Loring, by Dr. T. A. Bland. Any
cne having these books for sale will please send address and price to this office.
38-tf INDIANA FARMER.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
It
CLASSES in SHORT-HAND commence the first
of each week at the Indianapolis Business College, Bates Block, opposite P. O. Lessons given by
mail. For terms, etc., call at College, or address,
with stamp, C. E. Joslin, Indianapolis Business College. '■ 38-2w
MISCELLANEOUS.
FOR TRADE—I wish to exchange a thoroughbred, Southdown Buck, ont ot S. Meredith A
Son's imported stock for one of the same kind but
of different strain. S. K FLETCHER. 36-tf
STOCK NOTES.
\
A pair of thoroughbred Holstein cattle •will be on exhibition at the State Fair.
These are the first of this breed brought
into Indiana, by Tilghman H. Anderson.
A lot of fine Cotswold lambs were recently sold by a Kentucky breeder for
ten dollars per head.
Mr. Murray, of Westover Farm, on
the James River, Va., has just imported a
two year old Devon bull, a Devon heifer
of the same age, two Shropshire rams and
ten ewes, from England.
* — — m—m • ■ ■■—■
The splendid series of Short-horn sales
,for Kentucky, advertised in the Farmer,
will probably be the last of the autumn
- sales.
Mr. Jas. H. Parker, a swine breeder of
Spencer county this State, writes us that
he is losing nearly all of his valuable
hogs with the cholera. He has lost many
hundreds of dollars worth of fine stock in
this way. He writes that the disease is
so general and fatal, that there will hardly be enough pork made in that county to
supply the home demand. We regret to
hear of this .disaster among our good
friends of Spencer. The Farmer has
published everything that promised relief on thia subject, but what gives relief
in one case has no effect in another, and
bo there is no effectual and general remedy found yet for hog cholera. We believe that if the rules laid down by Prof.
Law, as published in the Farmer of August 26th, were carefully observed, that
there would be little orrib cholera among
the swine.
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Sale of Sheep.—We observe in the papers the following report of a sale of sheep,
the property ofF. GanoHill, Centerville,
Ky.,30:
106 CotWold ewes :.........i:;ii; *tt,M3 5o
21 •• " lambs, 259 00
35 " bucks, 735 00
10 " "Stick iambs,. 170 00
3 Leicester ewes 45 00
11 Shropshite-Down ewes,. 250 00
4 " bucks, „... 78 00
16 Southdown ewes 268 50
9 " buck lambs, 13143
224 head, average 17 00
The principal purchasers were Mr.
Mark 8. Cockrill, for the Tennessee Importing Company, and Mr. J. L. Devore
of Ohio. Highest priced imported Cotswold buck went to J. L. Devore, Ohio, for
$51. Highest Cotswold ewe sold to B. H.
Prewitt, Pine Grove, Ky., $41. Imported
"Shropshire buck sold to W. A. Gaines,
iCentreville, Ky., $46. and re-sold to General Cheatham, Nashville, Tenn., for $50.
Cotswolds in Kehtocky.—At the public sale ■ of Cotswolds by Messrs. War-
nock & Megibben, of Harrison county,
and J. W. Allison, of Bourbon, at the
farm of Mr. Megibben, near Cynthiana,
Ky., August 31st, the Kentucky Live
Stock Record says there was a good attendance, notwithstanding rain, and the
following prices were paid:
. 164 ewes, average per head $18 55
' 27 ewe lambs, 1140
41 bucks 36 25
32 buck lambs „ 1175
Highest priced bucks purchased by
Mr. Gordon of Indiana for $200; D. S.
Coleman & Son, Fayette county, buck,
$200; 2d, Jas. Williams, Clark county,
$185, and 3d, John Skillman, Bourbon
county, $145. The highest priced ewe
was sold to Buckner Woodford of Bourbon, for $60. .
. ♦ .
Ethan Allen, the celebrated trotting
stallion, died a few days ago in Kansas,
at the advanced age of twenty-seven
years.
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The owner of a large herd of Shorthorns in the county of Perth, Englandi
states that he has lately lost £50,000 by
the foot-and-mouth disease.
The firm of Gen. S. Meredith & Son, of
Cambridge City., has lately made a ship
ment of horses to England. This firm of
breeders of superior stock has a worldwide reputation, and this is not the first
time English stock breeders have sought
their herds for superior animals, of one
kind or an other.
SHEEP IN EUROPE.
The report on sheep and wool at the Vienna International Exhibition has just
been given to the public, from which we
quota the following in regard to^tsheeD
and wool: ■•■-;■*""-.■
-- isnwwani*.—The" Southdowns take the
lead in point of numbers, with 40 animals; 20 from the flock of Lord Sondes,
Elmham Hall,' Norfolk; and as many
from the Merton flock of Lord Walsing-
ham. The former represented a flock of
1,200 pnre bred Sussex Downs, founded
in 1823, and distinguished for symmetry
and thriftine3S. They were sold to go to
Hungary, Galicia, North Germany and
Russia. The latter, from a flock of worldwide renown, were sold to the Archduke
Albrecht for his estates in Austria; to
Count Fries, Czernahora, Moravia; Baron
Magnus, Dresha, Saxony, and to breeders in Russia. The Elmham Hall rams
yield fleeces of 8 to 10 pounds, and those
of Merton Farm are quite as heavy.
The Cotswolds numbered twenty-six in
three entries. Those from the Agricultural College Farm, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, twelve in number, representing
a flock of 200 ewes and 60 rams and 180
fattening sheep, illustrated well the especial aims of breeding at the college
farm, viz., a heavy fleece, depth of fleece,
and great hardiness. The fleeces weigh
from 13 to 20 pounds. The rams are in
great request for cross-breeding with
Southdowns, Hampshires, and mountain
sheep, to give length to the fiber and
weight to the fleece. There were also
eight from Mr. T. Beale Brown, Salperton
Park, Gloucestershire; and six from Thos.
Fulcher, Elmhall, Norfolk.
Germany.—The Merinos of Germany
have been greatly modified in later years
by crossing, so that it might be impossible to find a flock with the precise characteristics of twenty years ago, though
bearing the same name. ' The Electoral,
Negretti, and Rambouillet are mingled
according to the whim or judgment of
the breeder,, the better to suit his views
of the demands of the market for wool or
meat, and the result is the loss ofthe distinctive character of the originals. The
spindle legs have been shortened, the
flat ribs rounded, the bald head covered,
and the very fine super-Electoral fleece
has been displaced by longer,' coarser,
and more abundant wool, which brings
more money at a slightly reduced price
per pound.
Cement for Cracked Hoofs.
Mr. Defay has discovered a preparation, by means of which sand-cracks or
fractures in hoof or horn may be durably cemented up. Even pieces of iron
can be securely joined together by ita
means. The only precaution necessary
for its successful application is the careful removal of all grease by spirits of sal-
ammoniac, sulphide of carbon, or ether.
M. Defay makes no secret of ita composition, which is as follows: Take one
part of coarsely powdered gum-ammoni-
acum and two parts of gutta-percha, in
pieces the size of a hazel nut. Put them
m a tin-lined vessel over a slow fire, and
stir constantly until thoroughly mixed.
Before the thick resinous mass gets cold,
mold it into sticks like sealing wax. The
cement will keep for years, and, when required for use, it is only necessary to cut
off a sufficient quantity and re-melt it immediately before application.— English
Live Stock Journal.
Holsteins at Illinois State Pair.
Among the attractions at the Illinois
Sta'fe Fair last week, were the Holsteins.]
represented by the herd of Mr. Dexter
Severv, of Leland, 111. First prizes were
awarded on cows as follow s: Zuyder Zee
9th dam imp. Zuyder Zee. Rosalie, dam
imp. Vrouw. Hester, dam imp. Hendrika.
First prize on bull" to Merrimac, on First
Prince of Victor, and on duke of Leland.
The Holsteins are attracting increased
attention on account partly of their large
milking capacity as a breed, combined
with large size.—Farm Journal.
Feeding Meat for Hog Cholera.
Trifles light as air are sometimes of
weight and moment, when they help to
illustrate interesting and important subjects. As an example, I repeat the con
versation had with a couple of gentlemen
I met on the fair grounds last week. First
with Mr. Wiley Davis of Mahomet,
Champaign county, a well-informed,
wealthy and successful cattle feeder, owning a large farm, and living on the east
fork ofthe Sangamon. After the_ compliments of usage due to the magnificent
Short-horn show before us, I enquired:
"You and your neighbors on the Sangamon suffered much from the hog cholera last year; how is it this season?"
D. " JVe have very little of it. At one
time I thought my hogs were on the
point of being attacked, when fortunately
the train killed a couple of steers for me,
on which the hogs gorged themselves,!
and they have been healthy ever since.")
J. "Ah, indeed! Then you regard
fresh meat ai the best antidote or pre-]
ventive. How would you feed it; is_there}
not danger from gorging; would it no;
have been better to have cut the carcase:
up and doled them out, a pound or two
day to each?" '
D. "No. Gorging is just what the
want, or excess, or stirring up of so: _
kind; when a hog takes the cholera jt li
down, and if not stirred up,', dies in "
own atmosphere. Forcing them to mo|
is one of thebest. things for *them, n<
to feeding flesh and , providing them?
tini3v-«»^^vsr-«>e»^rnar»wviy ftncrilrjie.'.'^V
' J. Better and better! x>**ry?t }s unequal—nature caring no more
foiaman than for a grasshopper. Ah I
th< jhopper.' To-day I lost sixty acres of
wbjtt, eaten into the ground in legs than
tir. I thought I had seen locusts
ears ago, but I was mistaken.
out 10 o'clock this morning, I no-
ticcfl a heavy smoke r.'sing in the west.
I Ead to myself, ' that is strange-looking
smoke. What causes it ?' I sat on my
whe^t-drill and watched it. Rapidly it
ai-ojej*—smoke rising to the south, to the
now, to the northeast. In a few minutes
tKefcOlumn of smoke extended from the
s&ith xround by the west to the north-
eaift—id the extreme limit of vision.
I un-
A Good Crop.
To The Indiana Farmer:
This part of Indiana can boast of one
heavy crop without precedent for the
last quarter of a century, and that is
malaria. Having had a "tech," and just
when I didn't want it, I feel competent
to sit in judgment in the case.
As I was going to start to Indianapolis
to receive the Centennial Fruit so liberally contributed by our horticultural
friends, I had to take my bed with bil-
lious fever, being a relapse from a previous
attack. I am thus "personal" for the
purpose of explaining my seeming neglect of correspondence at that time. After
finding my inability to attend to the
centennial fruit, I sent my papers to
Charles Lowder with a request that he
fill my place. This he did, and after
working one "day, went home with the
fever. He in turn sent for J. B. Milhous, but he or his family were sick, so
the work of packing fell upon Sylveste r
Johnson, assisted by Jesse White^ind
Matthew Lowder. S. J. reported that he
would go with the fruit and see that it
was properly displayed, and I feel gratified that one of the committee was found
well enough to go with it. Verily this
would seem to be the pursuit of glory,
or knowledge, under difficulties.
Since writing the foregoing, friend
Johnson wrote me briefly, stating that
our fruit all arrived safely at the centennial grounds-, and that by evening of the
second day of the exhibition, he had it
all arranged, and that for quality it compared favorably with other states, but
waa far behind some of them in number
of varieties. To see this national exhibition of fruit would have been worth
more to me than all the other part of j
the centennial show, the occasion being'
slowly ssjnk,l auspicious, for making notes and corroc-
. > .— o - ■* ; - r-« my wheat jtisaii,'bt)i\i in'desirable varietieiVas wei]
sacks u the wtgon, hitched to it, drove
Winter Feeding.
Corn is better adapted for fattening animals than for making them grow. To
young animals, even to pigs, it should be
fed in moderation. Fat is not what we want
in a young animal, but bones and muscles instead, and these are best produced
by grass, roots, and oats. It is often, however, economy to feed a little corn-meal
with these. Prof.Arnold has made some
experiments in feeding corn compared
with hay, and he estimates the former at
to the g-anary, unloaded, drove to the
house, got my tu^ and went prairie-
chicken shooting. My wife looked at
me in mild surpris Quitting work on
a beautiful day to gOHooting was a queer
thing, she thought, ±&& not i,ave the
heart to tell her that i jggg than four
hours her nice garden **,„-
phia -Ua.,on Sunday last, which done considerable Qatoaee.to tlae m&Vu «xW*b*&*uS*tY -hoiva- -
ing and Machinery Hall. Considerable dam- "•■
age to American and English exhibits re- ''
suited.
A few days ago a flock of swans, a half mile
in length and estimated at 10,000, passed over
LaSalle, Illinois.
In the oolleges, academies, schools and other
educational institutions of Jacksonville, 111.,
there are 65 males and 83 females employed as
instructors—148 in all. Not less than three
thousand pupils are receiving instrnction in
the educational institutions in that city.
Last week and this witnessed larger numbers of visitors at the Centennial than at any
former time.
Rufus R. Graves, who died recently at Morristown, N. Y., left large bequests to numerous institutions of learning and christian associations.
The legislature of Maine stands, politically—'
House, 120 Republicans, 30 Democrats; Senate, 29 Republicans, 2 Democrats.
Contributions have been flowing into the
yellow fever afflicted city of Savannah. Great
destitution exists.
Mr. J. H. Potts, of Morgan county, carried
off over $600 in premiums at the Illinois State
Fair last week on his herd of shorthorns.
Robbers boarded tbe Utah Central Railroad
a *few nights ago near Salt Lake City, and secured $15,000.
The Architectural Iron Works of New York
City have failed. Liabilities $200,000 of which
$11,000 is due employes.
Miller & Son., calico printers of Glasgow,
Scotland, have failed. Liabilities $500,000.
The great boss thief—Tweed—will ere long
be returned to his native heath, New York.
Illinois has 929,940 horses, nearly 2,000,000
cattle, 1,000,000 hogs, 17,575 pianos, 21,608
melodeons, 155,728 sewing machines, and diamonds valued at $50,000.
The revised statutes, 1874, of Illinois, pro-
hibiU waging or betting money on valuables
of any nature, on the result of an election,
under penalty of $1,000 fine and imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one
year.
The war which has been going on for some
time in Turkey has been marked by the most
atrocious crimes that could possibly be conceived by the human mind. In some provinces the women have been outraged by the
Turkish soldiery by the hundred. The details
of the various crimes committed by them are
disgusting, Bickening in the very extreme.
The Turks appear to have gone to the very
verge of the most hideous and revolting catalogue of crime, exhibiting all the characteristics of the most barbarous and brutal of
created man. One is appalled at the recital of
the devilish crimes they have committed. And
neither age, sex, nor condition seem to have
escaped. The authorities promise to redress
their wrongs by apprehending and punishing
the bloody bandits.
Special Notice.
To obviate the accumulation of dirt on top
of the hog's nose, which happens in some lo- ?
calities only, insert the Champios Dot-nti- "*|
Ring so that the cross-ban comes in frost of "j
the nose, and not on the top. It can be used
either way as the judgment of the operator.
dictates. Insert the Double Ring carefully, '
and it will give entibb satisfaction. Sx